Kushinski hopes to move his shop there from his current location at 150 E. 10th St.

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The Broadway building is zoned B-4 Central Business District and Kushinski is asking for a I-1 Light Industrial zoning to allow for manufacture of wood products.

The space is the former Time and Again and would make a fitting workshop because the former occupants did furniture restoration, Kushinski said. He also aims to install a showroom space for his high-end custom-built cabinets, which he has built for customers across northern Ohio.

Kushinski said he has outgrown his current workshop, which is about 2,300 square feet in size. The new space would have more than double the space to work and display the cabinets.

"Response has been very positive," Kushinski said about the proposed move. "I'm hopeful."

Kushinski has one employee and he said he does not intend to create a huge wood factory on Broadway.

"There's not going to be some giant vacuum system running eight hours a day, there's not going to be some massive amounts of chemicals being sprayed," he said. "Technically, yes, I'm manufacturing wood products, but nowhere near the size of a shop that has 12 guys and is running machinery eight hours a day."

Meanwhile, contractor Michael Lagina will renew his request to rezone two parcels at 5400 Grove Ave. from B-2 General Business District to special land use in I-1 Light Industrial to have a 40-foot-by-80-foot storage shop and yard for construction equipment. The land is owned by Lagina, of North Ridgeville, who hopes to sell the land to his nephew, Matt Klingshirn, as a base for M&J Building & Excavating, Klingshirn's construction company.

Lagina and Klingshirn for months have spoken to city officials about conditions to approve the zoning change, which was not allowed by a vote of Lorain City Council in September.

City officials apparently did not look at the plans for the site and neighbors are not opposing it, Klingshirn said.

Earlier this year, the Lorain Planning Commission recommended the city not approve the request.

In September, City Council voted 6-4 to approve the change; while the nay votes were fewer in number, by law, City Council needed at least nine members to vote to overturn the recommendation of the Planning Commission, so the zoning change failed.

The 9 a.m. Wednesday meeting will be at Lorain City Hall, 200 W. Erie Ave.